We are Rob and Peg Chenault and we welcome you to our site and our lives. We inherited this lovely family home, that my great- grandfather built for his new bride in 1908. My grandparents practically raised myself and my siblings in this home. My parents built a home right next door, but this is the home I consider my touchstone. When we decided to take on the monumental task of renovation and remodel of this home, we soon found that while we could get contractors to do some of the heavy lifting - like the new roof, siding, leveling, and running new water and sewer lines, it was up to us to do most of the interior work ourselves. I am apparently too particular to detail for contractors! So, my dear and talented husband, known by one and all as "Poor Rob" must trudge through his retirement perfecting my home for me. We started in 2006 and regardless of the progress we make, I now believe we will never finish. My Dad said I like to change things too much! I guess he's right. I want it to be a home that my great- grandparents, my grandparents, my parents, my siblings, and all of our children would recognize as home, but with all of the modern conveniences that make me happy! :)

We have six children and eight grandchildren. They live all over the country. We have Bella, our Maltese, who is spoiled beyond repair and who has more clothes than I do. She is a diva and loves to be groomed and pampered and dressed up in pretty clothes. She also loves to go on our boat with us and swim with us in the river and lakes!

That brings us to our cats. In early 2005 I decided I wanted a new Persian kitten. As I researched cats for at least a year on the Internet, I ran across the dwarf breeds of Munchkins and Napoleons and fell instantly in love. I had to have some. I studied and researched and decided that what I wanted to do with my retirement was breed cats. I went into it full speed ahead and along the way discovered that it was a way to help with our passion for animal rescue. We had a farm out in the country that we named ResQMe Farms. It seemed fitting to keep the name for our cattery! Over the years prior to moving here we rescued countless dogs and cats (and other critters), vetted them, and found them homes. After opening my cattery, I found myself constantly rescuing cats and vetting them and finding them homes. I stopped counting after placing over 30 cats, above and beyond my breeding program. After breeding about a year or so, I discovered my true love was the Napoleon. I had never before or since come across a cat so unique in health, personality, and beauty, not to mention dignity! I started gearing my program toward the sole breeding of the Napoleon. Then in 2009, I met Margie Gardner of Creator's Cattery in GA. She asked me to become involved in advancing the breed through the cat registry, TICA, so that they could compete in the Show Ring. That became a wild ride! The Napoleons are in the Show Halls and ResQMe Farms cats are being Shown and making us proud. Unfortunately, politics being what they are... TICA took away our name. This will not affect our goals of continuing to produce Show Quality Napoleons. It just meant we had to find a new registry for our Napoleons. We now have a wonderful new home with CFF and are very happy there. The Napoleons have been advanced to Championship status and will be Shown in Championship starting May 1, 2016. We are so proud that we found a home with CFF that has allowed us to continue our efforts to promote the Napoleon!!!

It is important to note that ResQMe Farms is a Hobby Breeding program. You can read all about this on our Purchasing Info Page. It basically means that we breed in the furtherance, betterment, and for the advancement of the Napoleon Cat Breed, rather than for profit. The prices of our Napoleons are comparable with other Napoleon breeders and other rare Pedigreed cats. If we break even at the end of the year it is a good year! A profit at the end of the year would be really nice, but is not our goal and so far not a reality.

My new goals are not so much oriented to just breeding cats as it is to protecting the Napoleon Breed and seeing them flourish. And with a few excellent breeders living here in our home, I can enjoy a few litters of kittens a year, provide my clients with some healthy, beautiful kittens with that famous Napoleon temperament, on a much smaller basis, and produce some Show Quality kittens. So, we hope you follow us on our new journey with CFF and watch as we take our cattery breeding program and scale it down to an enjoyable hobby. And watch for our litters because we expect to have the most beautiful and healthy Napoleon kittens to offer you over the next few years if this all works out for us. Thank you to all of our loyal past clients and welcome to our new clients.

BELLAOur Maltese. She spends her time making us happy, being happy, playing with our cats and making them happy, and in general being the most spoiled and happiest dog on the planet!

ResQMe Farms

Our family home in Amite, LA since 1908. Built by my great- grandfather for his new bride. My husband and I are the fourth generation to live here and we work continuously to renovate and remodel it in a manner to maintain it's original beauty, but to modernize it for more comfortable living. It is lovely and I feel safe and happy and sleep very well here. Our hope is that one of our children will move in here someday and keep this lovely home in the family as long as possible!

Pedigreed cats do not fit everyone's taste or budget. While we love our precious designer kittens and think the world is a better place with them in it, if they are not for you, we always recommend you look in your local animal shelters. You may find that perfect companion pet there. We have adopted and loved so many pets from shelters and that have been abandoned. And have loved them dearly. These animals deserve good homes, also.

ResQMe Farms is proud of the fact that we ONLY produce Purebred Pedigreed Napoleons! All of our kittens will have a minimum of three generations of Napoleon Breed Group, Munchkin Breed Group, and/or Persian Breed Group in their pedigree!

For more information on why this is so important see our Pedigreed Napoleon Breeders Page.